Senior Specialist, Application Management

This Team Lead role is to oversee a local regional support team on day-to-day basis including rota planning & lead L2/L3 application support for the respective production, pre-production, and test functions by Investigating issues, developing fixes, supporting new releases, performing general maintenance and administration. New functionality through enhancements and performance tuning is also required.

Would be required to work on Morning, Day or Night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster. Out of hours support overnight and across weekends and Bank Holidays is frequently needed. Should be able to provide on-call support.

Strong business knowledge is required for working with business teams during investigations.

They need to be subject matter experts in the underlying technologies used by the applications. They may be required to provide detailed technical support for developers producing bug fixes & new releases of these applications.

Must be self-motivating with the ability to prioritize workload amongst the team.

Key Responsibilities

Support of the LSEG Post Trade / London Clearing House (LCH) applications related to SwapAgent

Support of a critical element of the London financial infrastructure.

• Resolve Incidents and Problems Monitor ServiceNow for Incidents and ProblemsAnalyze problems and decide on suitable resolutionsApply resolutions following the LCH Change Management procedureReport status to relevant business and IT teamsRecord progress of incident resolution in ServiceNowFollow documented incident management procedures

• Bug fixes and enhancements to LCH products Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and minor functionality enhancement requestsImplement application fixesUpdate Bitbucket with source code changes where necessaryUpdate relevant WIKI/ documentation with changesCo-ordinate the Release process for new releasesWork to the ITIL standard following LCH policies

• Building and supporting environments

• Configuring monitoring and logging software (Datadog preferably) on all resources of the application service

• Maintain working relationship with business teams and business management 

• Out of hours support / On-call support Be available for overnight support of production services to ensure successful completion of processingRespond to overnight calls and deal with issuesSupport weekend releases and maintenance workParticipate in Production out of hours activities such as Disaster Recovery exercises

• Consultancy Provide consultancy during bug fixes, design and implementationAct as subject matter experts for the application and the relevant business domain

• Assist in project related work Carry out requirements as defined by project team

• Quality check potential changes Review development release packages prior to production deploymentProvide benefit of experience in the business area and application

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education:

• Degree educated, preferably in a technical discipline

Required skills and experience

• Strong UNIX/Linux System Administration skills ( RHCSA certification preferred)

• Good SQL Coding skills (Oracle SQL)

• Scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python)

• Exposure to DevOps and related Technologies : CI/CD, Jenkins , Ansible

• Exposure to AWS Cloud Technologies ( EC2, EBS, RDS, VPC)

• Experience in Configuring and monitoring using DataDog

• Exposure to the Murex (Preferred)

• Exposure to XML / Oracle Database /SQL

• Experience with IBM MQ (Preferred)

• Knowledge of Network Diagnostics & Web Servers

• Hands-on in version control repository (Ideally bitbucket)

• Control M experience (Preferred)

• Understanding of product development lifecycle and methodologies　

Person Specification

• Good communication skills

• Willing to adopt Hybrid working mode and work in Bangalore Office

• Experience in Financial or an investment banking environment.

• Familiarity with financial products and financial terms with ground knowledge of the IRD Asset class.

• Excellent analytical skills, Attention to Detail and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience of working in an IT support team.

• Strong technical background in the core technologies with multiple years of experience.

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to IT and business teams and to senior management

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London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

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